Chapter 20: The Villainess' Secret Plan (Part 2) (Edited)

[Fantasia Love, Doki-doki ♡ in Magic Academy].

It was the most popular otome game that currently had the most rating in a faraway land called Japan. Many players had played this game, regardless of their gender.

Why?

Because the game consisted with two types of game mechanic, which are a [Dating Sim] and a [RPG] or we called [Role-play Game].

The story start with the main heroine who was a commoner girl and rise up to be a noble because of her rare element of magic, the [Light] element.

It was the rarest element of all that can be only used by a certain job which is the [Saintess] and the [Hero] job.

In this game, the heroine must capture the heart of 5 male targets, to gain their help and saved the world with them.

One of the male leads is someone important, he was known as [the Crown Prince] of the Luxion Kingdom, who also the man Iris adores the most.

Because of that, she got herself engaged with him, to fulfill her desire for him.

But...the crown prince rejected her multiple times, despite Iris who was called as the most beautiful noble woman within their age and having the most influenced person because of her family status.

But the Crown Prince had started to get interested to the heroine, even though he's already engaged with Iris.

Knowing that, Iris began to feel something that she shouldn't have.

Started with...

[Sadness].

[Anger].

[Jealousy].

[Desperation].

And finally, [Obsession].

Those emotions began to mixed up from within her, and directed these feelings towards these two people who mocked her existence.

The kind little girl that used to have a bright smile and loved by everyone else...slowly turned into a hideous monster who was feared by many people.

She used her strength to overpower the weak and reigned over the noble parties and even commoners, because of her jealousy over a simple unrequited love.

She became the tyrant...the ruler who controlled all of them, dominating every being.

But it was over...on the graduation day.

Iris was exiled by the crown prince, her deed became to known by the King himself.

From attempted to murder the heroine and using her power to do evil deed to both nobles and commoners.

Iris was furious and used her power to kill the heroine, but she was stopped by the Crown prince and the other male leads.

They defeated her and left her a big scar on her face, then thrown her out from the Kingdom.

Her story ended with a simple words.

When Iris thought she finally can be happy with someone who truly loves her the most and understand her.

Iris met her miserable death in the war.

Now her fate belonged to [Hanamachii Yomi] as [Iris May Welford], where she would face those hardships and sufferings.

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'That's her story after the ending from the game...although I really don't know much about her.'

'But now I need to recall everything that I remember about the game, because now I am here as her.'

'And planned myself to create a deal with these two legendary person in front of me.'

'The deal that they can't refuse...'

[The Sword Saint, Rowan Threston].

[The Witch, Matilda Threston].

Together with her maid as well and their granddaughter, [Silvi Threston]. The four of them had gathered in this empty guest room which Iris had prepared earlier and told Silvi to ask her grandparents to stay.

''Even though they looked calm and composed, the aura they're giving off are quite something.' Iris thought while observing them from upclose.

'It felt like they are ferocious beasts that awaits for its prey to shows up.' Iris described them.

Iris gulped and felt her hands trembling, 'I'm scared...but...I can't back down with my survival on the line.'

'With this [The Villainess] skill in my hand along with the memories of the story guide and the route all of the characters as well their background story including Iris, even it just a half of it, I will be fine.'

Iris resolved herself and looked straight towards them then began to speak.

"What I want from both of you are...your [Power and Influence]."

Matilda and Rowan simply observed her before the older lady opened her mouth to speak.

"How interesting, what exactly do you mean by that, my dear Iris?~" Matilda asked, regarding about her intentions of her answers.

Iris remained calm, "What I want is simple, I just want the two people from the legend, to keep my family safe." Then replied her question.

And that piqued Matilda's interest and curiousity, "Hmmm~...power and influence, I see."

"But don't you have a lot of power and influences already with your family status?"

"I still don't get, why you need them despite having that many." Matilda replied with the facts of her family as the Dukedom.

But Iris shook her head, "Indeed, my family status can be regarded as the highest status of all."

"As the daughter of Welford's family, I can govern or exercise my power most of the majority of the Kingdom with ease." Iris then stared at them, with her face looking grim.

"But...that is all of it."

"What if there were someone out there with more influence and power than our family, someone who could quickly bring us to ruin?"

"What can we do?" Iris uttered those words.

When she uttered those words and revealing new possibility that could endanger this family might appear.

This made the two of them were struck with the same thought.

"You don't mean [The Royal Family]?" Rowan asked, guessing it with the most possible answer.

But Iris smiled at them, "My apologies, I can't answer for that question, because it would be interpreted as blasphemy against the Royal Family, which our family has long served for them."

"However, we can still consider this as an another possibility that they might be the ones to bring our family to ruin."

"Including those who have the same power and equality as our family." Iris added with smile.

'Like the other [Great Family], who intended for this family to be destroyed in the first place.'

'Since in the future, they will start by gathering the evidence then ganged up on Iris to exiled her from the Kingdom.'

'Although that will happen in the future, the current [Great Family] doesn't have any reason to be hostile to each other, because they are still the Household that had been protecting this Kingdom for so long.'

'But, it will change when I'm inside the academy.'

'And not yet...I can't tell them about this.' Iris had given them the hints of these possibility which Matilda and Rowan could guessed to.

But Iris wouldn't mentioned it, because it could lead to another misunderstanding and made them suspicious of her.

Meanwhile, Rowan and Matilda were in their thought too, knowing the meaning of the hints and answer she gave it to them.

"Hmmm, I think I can take the guess of it."

"But you still haven't answered the real question here." Rowan asked, as he looked at her.

"Yes, unfortunately, you haven't answered us the question that we have been meaning to ask." Matilda joined in, repeating the same question over and over.

The question...

[Why would you need this?]

Iris smiled when their gaze are fixed towards her, 'It's time...' and taking this chance to gave them the [Truth].

"Because I have a vision..."

And the [Lie].

"A vision?" Rowan blinked curiously, while repeating her word.

"Yes, the truth is I have a multiple skill that came from my [Magic Eyes]." Iris began to explained.

"And one of the skill, is a [Unique Skill] and it's called [Foresight]." Iris revealed it with her eyes turned red for a moment.

"This skill allowed me to see 5 seconds ahead into the future." Iris explained.

With a big revelation, Rowan stood up from his seat, "Does that mean you have precognition skill!? That's very rare!" Then he began to laugh.

"...Hahaha! No wonder! So that's how you manage to read my move." Rowan praised her instead.

Iris smiled at him, "Yes, Rowan-sama, but even so I still couldn't land a hit on you. Which mean your skill as [Swordsman] surpassed the speed of my precognition skill."

"Just as expected of [The Sword Saint]~" Iris smiled mischievously while giving him the praise.

Rowan looked at her and grinned widely, before he sat down again, "Heh, don't flatter me...but then, does Matilda—"

"Yes, Matilda-sama know about it since she used her own [Magic Eyes] skill on me." Iris replied.

"I see, so I guess I am the only one who doesn't know about it." Rowan stated by looking at Matilda who sat next to him.

"Indeed, well...I already know the first time I saw her."

"But you haven't answered us...about this [vision] that you mention, my dear?" Matilda responded calmly.

"That's right...you can continue Iris." Rowan spoke and allowing Iris to continue.

"Thank you, Rowan-sama, Matilda-sama...but before that, I need your cooperation." Iris reminded them.

"What do you mean by that?" Matilda asked.

"Because the vision that I'm about to share to you is a secret that no one else can know."

"I'm only telling these to you two because you are the people who fought to together with [The Hero] and...Silvi's grandparents."

"Hmmm, I understand...but does that mean Silvi are in this?" Matilda asked.

Silvi who stood beside her only smiled at them as Iris giggled.

"Fufufu~ she seems fine with it but don't worry, because Silvi is the person I trusted the most."

"Heh, fine I understand~" Matilda replied with smile.

Rowan smiled as well and nodded his head in agreement.

"Thank you Ojou-sama...this Silvi will always be beside you!" Silvi said with smile.

Iris smiled after hearing their response, "Thank you as well Silvi~"

"Now...I shall start it..." Iris paused for a moment, organizing her thoughts before she could talk about her vision.

The three of them nodded their head.

"As you already know, my skill [Foresight] allowed me to see 5 seconds in the future."

"However, this skill does not limit my vision to just 5 seconds into the future, but it can also allow me to see something farther into the future." Iris revealed.

"...?!" The two were taken aback by such a significant revelation.

"And this vision that I had...is connected with the worst future that I had never imagine." Iris spoke.

"Although I can only saw a glimpse of it, but it will happen in the future..."

"[The revival of The Demon Lord]." Iris revealed.

The two of them widened their eyes in shock.

"What?!"

The two simultaneously reacted but Iris remained calm, Silvi who stood beside her also kept her composure and listened to her patiently.

"Yes, just as you know [The Hero] who travelled along with you, had died by sacrificing himself to kill [The Demon Lord]."

"Although many books had told that...but in reality...the Hero didn't kill him, am I right?"

"But instead....he sealed [The Demon Lord] underneath the Capital of Luxion Kingdom by using [The Holy Sword]." Iris recounted the story.

Rowan and Matilda still felt tremendously shocked with this sudden reveal.

"You even knew about that..." Rowan couldn't hide the fact that he is shocked beyond words that this little girl knew about such a thing, particularly about the sealed demon lord.

"Yeah, it had me surprised after seeing to where it located on." Iris replied while smiling.

"Hmmm...I'm curious though...how did you know that the Demon Lord was sealed?" Matilda asked as she touched her chin with her finger.

"Like I told you, I only saw a glimpse of it...I only saw that the Demon Lord showed up underneath the castle which was also the vault where the kingdom's treasures were kept." Iris replied.

"Indeed, that is true...but the question is, how did the Demon Lord seal end up breaking?" Rowan asked.

"That's....I really don't know..." Iris answered.

"You don't know?" Matilda asked.

"Yes, I actually don't know...because the vision only limited to see a glimpse of it, so I don't know how did the seal end up breaking." Iris explained.

"But there's one thing for sure, is that someone is trying to revive the Demon Lord to do something horrible in the future." Iris ended the explanation.

Suddenly the atmosphere in the room got intense as soon as she spoke.

"Hmmm...something horrible huh, but why do you think there someone out there trying to do something like that?" Rowan asked.

"Because I one of the clue just happen recently..."

"Recently?" Rowan asked curiously.

"Rowan-sama, do you remember about the village that I visited with Silvi and Harson not too long ago?"

Rowan knitted his brows a bit as he tried to remember, "Yeah...what about it?"

"Before I come to that place...I had a vision..." Iris spoke.

"...a stampede shows up and it was led by a [Boss Monster]...the village was roamed with monsters...every people in there was eaten alive and all of them died." As she explained in full detailm

Rowan and Matilda went silent after hearing it from Iris.

"Is that true...Silvi." Rowan turned to her, asking for a confirmation.

"Yes Ojii-sama, that is true. Just as Ojou-sama said the stampede [did] shows up but... it was already by someone." Silvi explained.

"Someone?...do you mean that rumored boy?" Rowan concluded.

Both Iris and Silvi wear a smile as they answered.

"Yes, Rowan-sama."

"Yes, Ojii-sama."

Matilda looked at them and became a bit irritated as she listened to their seemingly exclusive conversation about a certain topic that she doesn't know about.

"Wait, don't leave me in the dark like this. Who is this boy that you all talking about." Matilda asked impatiently, feeling left out and also very much curious about it.

Rowan sighed as he looked at her,

"That's why I told you to stop doing your research and started caring about the world." Rowan spoke some facts which is also the reason why Matilda doesn't know about the world.

"Hmph, there's nothing interesting in this world than magic. But that is that...and this is this it's different! so tell me about him!" Matilda stated.

Iris and Silvi chuckled a bit while Rowan sighed again.

"Well I don't know much of the details since I only heard just a bit about him from Harson and Silvi." Rowan spoke.

"I see...then the only one left who knows is..."

Matilda turned to look at Iris as if she's pointing her out. Silvi and Rowan followed suit and staring at her as well.

"Hmmm~" The three slowly curved their lips into a smirk towards the little maiden.

"E-ehh?? D-don't look at me like that! W-we still have unfinished business here!"

Iris stuttered while her cheeks turned red from embarrassment from their stares since her skill [The Villainess] wear off for a moment.

"Hahaha~ well sorry~sorry~ I couldn't help but to be curious of this little boy that you cared about~"

Iris slowly calmed down and spoke once again when her skill activated again,

"Ahem...leaving that matter aside."

"Just as I told you the village that was supposed to be destroyed...it was saved by that boy...and that changed the future I saw." Iris spoke.

"So you mean the future changed by itself without you knowing it...because of that boy." Matilda asked.

"Yes Matilda-sama, the future changed...I don't know how did it change...but the boy that I met changed it by defeating...[Unique Monster]."

"...." The two of them started to get used to the seemingly unbelievable train of information and decided to just listen to her.

"Not only that, it wasn't an ordinary unique monster...it was..."

"[Unique Boss Monster]." Iris continued.

"Heavens...I heard from Harson that it was only just a boss monster...but to hear that it was unique one, which was still an impressive feat to defeat it alone." Rowan explained while crossing his hands on his chest.

"Uh? Is it really that difficult Rowan-sama?" Iris asked.

"It was...even the normal unique monster itself is already strong enough to destroy a whole army...and it need at least 1 S-rank adventurer to defeat it."

"I-...I never knew...then the two of you...have you ever fought one before?"

Both Matilda and Rowan stared at each other for a moment before they looked at her again.

"Yes...we faced them a lot in the past...when we travelled together with [The Hero] and the one who created such beings was...[The Demon Lord] himself." Rowan spoke.

"Indeed, those being are the scariest being I ever seen...but tell me Iris, do you know what type of unique monster that he fought?" Matilda urged her to continue.

"Ah, If I remember...it was a giant wolf called [Wolf Leader]." Iris claimed.

"A [Wolf Leader] huh, I see...that boy was lucky that it was just a D-rank boss monster that turned into a unique monster...but if it was B-rank or higher, probably he won't survive." Matilda explained.

'Unbelievable...does that mean Ray-sama is at least B-rank or above...in that age? I'm curious of how much stronger he can be in the future.' Iris thought of him.

'And...that boy managed to defeat it alone...now I'm curious about this one.' Matilda thought the same.

As both of them shared similar thoughts about their curiousity towards Rei while they smirked.

"I think so too...but I never thought that there someone out there who would try to revive the Demon Lord once again." Rowan spoke.

"Indeed, that thing is a disaster that cannot be prevent unless the Hero and the Saint appeared at this age." Matilda commented.

"In the future it will eventually happen, but before that could become true..." Iris stopped for a moment before she spoke once again.

"The Welford's family...will meet their demise first." Iris stated it.

"Huh?!–" Silvi, who managed to keep her composure all this time, gave in. She looked extremely taken aback, still couldn't believe of what she just heard.

"What do you mean by that?! Iris!" Rowan shouted as he stood up.

"Ojou-sama! What do you mean by that?!" Silvi added.

"The two of you...please calm down." With those words from Matilda they eventually calmed themselves down and went back to their position.

"Iris...I hope this isn't a joke, because this matter can be serious and I would be very angry if it was." Matilda spoke while intentionally looking irritated by her words.

"Of course, Matilda-sama...the words I am telling you is the truth." Iris spoke.

Matilda even checked her using her magic, "I see....then tell us now, how did that happen."

Matilda said while looking straight towards Iris' eyes and about to release those purplish aura around her body.

Iris slowly took a deep breath and stared at them again.

"Yes Matilda-sama...the first cause of this family's ruin..."

"It's start with...my Mother's death." Iris spoke grimly, looking down a bit to her hands.

"Eliza…died!? How?! She's my one and only student who are the second best of me...it must be a mistake." Matilda shook her head in disbelief.

"Indeed Iris, it seems there's some kind of mistakes...she looks fine to me when we met." Rowan added carefully.

"I know, because she hasn't undergone any of it yet."

"Yet...??"

"Matilda-sama, do you know about...[Mana Disruption]."

"Of course I know, it's one of the most dangerous illnesses that cause incredible pain all over one's body as their energy sipping out bit by bit...and slowly...died." Matilda explained seriously.

"Most of the people who catch this kind of illness only people with [Mage] type as their jo– huh?" Matilda widened her eyes for a moment as she realized something.

"Wait...does that mean she caught it!? But from what I know, usually the only one who caught it is people with no sense of mana control or failed on their magic experiment! What's more, the rarest case is from the moment when their born! Eliza is a strong mage that I recruited myself! She doesn't have sick body!"

"Yes of course Matilda...mother will never be caught by those things since she is a strong mage but..."

"She was poisoned...that could lead to permanent mana disruption that cannot be removed by any means, even the best [Healer] couldn't do it."

When she spoke those words it shook the two legendary people in front of her while Silvi who stood beside her was trembling.

"A poison?!" Both of them looked taken aback, didn't quite expected that.

"Yes, but...it's not just your ordinary poison...it's a poison that was injected with mana."

The three of them went silent as they stared at her with grim looks. Iris looked away for a moment before she continued her talk.

"Do you remember Matilda-sama? About your original magic, the one that you told me."

When she asked that, Matilda finally connected the dots.

"Don't tell me...it have the same concept as my magic?"

"Yes...it's similar but also different. It does required a rule like your magic...and this one is a required time to unleash it truly."

"The user first injected mana into a very strong poison and then it went inside her body...since my mother is a strong mage she can easily dispel the poison from her body."

"After the poison was being dispelled, the mana inside of it was released then remained inside of her...disrupting her mana...and slowly but surely...made her body becomes weak day by days...and eventually after a year...the magic is done and killed Mother."

"I-...I can't believe it..." Matilda murmured in disbelief.

"Yes...but....it was only just the beginning..."

"Because after that, the future for Welford's family will get even worse..."

Iris spoke as if she was threatening them. Her eyes flashed red for a moment, while Silvi, Rowan and Matilda stared at her as they soon will learn the truth of the future...they will be facing.

To be continued...